... has weakened, and water chemistry and ecosystem components have changed, the latter in a direction often described as “Atlantification” or “borealisation,” with a less “Arctic” appearance. Temporal and spatial changes in the Barents Sea have a wider relevance, both in the context of large-scale...

... “Atlantification”, has been correlated with the increasing inflow of warm Atlantic waters and warming of Arctic waters and is seen as an indicator of global warming ( Polyakov et al., 2017 ; Neukermans et al., 2018 ). The relevance of dispersed temperate or low-latitude diatom species for community structuring...